Winston-Salem: Lorenzo Sonego to quarters without playing, eliminated Luciano Darderi

Winston-Salem: Lorenzo Sonego to quarters without playing, eliminated Luciano Darderi

Lorenzo Sonego's adventure at the Winston Salem ATP 250 continues. The Piedmontese player, in fact, after defeating Swiss Dominic Stricker in the opener, took advantage of Juncheng Shang’s forfeit to detach his pass to the quarterfinals without playing. The 2005-born Chinese player did not è come out at his best from his encounter with Navone and decided to withdraw as a precautionary measure to preserve himself for the Us Open.

Nothing to do, on the other hand, for Luciano Darderi, who è was forced to surrender in the second round in two sets with a score of 6-2 6-4 against Belgian David Goffin, who è was skillful in concretizing the numerous errors committed by the Italian-Argentinean.

In the first set, the first stretch was placed by Goffin, who, after nullifying a break point in the second game, managed to snatch service from his opponent in the fifth game. Darderi tried to come back, but failed to be concrete, while the Belgian è cynical to take advantage of every opportunity and close the partial on 6-2.

The second set also starts uphill for the Blue, who immediately loses his serve. This time, però. the class of 2002 manages to fight back and bring himself back to parity at 2-2. In the middle phase of the partial, the two players kept exchanging breaks for each other, but eventually è again the Belgian was more polished and snatched for the third and decisive time the serve from his opponent. At that point, it was just a formality for the former top 10 player to close the score on 6-4.

In the quarterfinals, Lorenzo Sonego will face the winner of the match between American Zachary Svajda and Russian Pavel Kotov, while David Goffin will take on Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech.